Character counts. Our coaches must be exemplary role models, on the court and off.

It was in acknowledgment of his rich history here that we wanted to give him an opportunity to coach in the Big East and to have a wonderful sort of termination of his career at the University of Cincinnati. Obviously that didn't turn out to be a viable option for him, but I'm optimistic about the future of our program.

We think that array of issues in each student's admission will give us the kind of latitude we need to recruit a world-class tuba player, a world-class designer, a world-class athlete to our program.

We expect our coaches to be role models, and we expect our students to be role models. We make no apologies for setting high standards.

We felt there was too much misinformation out there that could not be corrected.

We asked Coach Huggins to join all of us as we raised the standards at the University of Cincinnati across the board in academics, in athletics, in service and research,

We couldn't be happier to have you here.

We must recruit the very best student-athletes we can.

We must recruit the very best student-athletes we can. ... We have a very high standard for graduation rates for our entire university community, ... While there are certainly examples of academic success, there are simply not enough.

Will it affect financial support? Frankly, in my tenure here I have visited over 25 cities, ... alumni and donors in each and everyone of those cities, their anticipation of our excellence is profound. They want our national reputation to rise.